My cct333 labs Lab 1 Tutorial #1 Wiki Question (2 marks): Review the Tutorial 1 movies, and describe Jonathan Ives and his theory of 'undesign' in relation to his work at Macintosh. (200 words) Jonathan Ives is Apple’s vice president and designed such as ipod, imac and made Apple’s product become popular with his team. He showed his genius in innovating old things during university time and got some awards. The success of Apple company not only due to the leading ability of Ive, but also he knew how important it is to cooperate with his team. The designers, engineers and marketing department work interactively with each other. Ive’s concept of “undesign” is a fantastic idea for designing products. The undersign concept is to design a product according to its original attribute. The simplest way to use digital products’ function can be widely accepted by consumers. For example, for the ipod mp3 player, we can just use our fingers to touch the screen to accomplish the order we want. Everyone can easily use it even if my old grandma. Just because of the undersign idea making everything became so easy, Apple products so popular around the world. Therefore, every new generation of an apple product keeps innovating and gain big market response.
Lab2 Tutorial #2 Wiki Question: Choose a country on the map 'Design for the Other 90%' at **http://other90.cooperhewitt.org/** and read through the description of the products designed for each country. 1. Which product interests you the most, and why? (200 words) 2. Which category would interest you to research further for your group project, and why? (100 words) 1. The product most interests me is the Q drum. I think it is really a great invention for people living in Africa and desert area. I think for every human being, the first basic question is to survive. Maybe for us, who live in Canada can not feel that being alive is not a very difficult thing, but for people live in rural area of Africa, they lack food, water, medicine, etc. They do not have any immunity even to a very normal sickness like fever. So clean water is very important to sustain a life for them. Most area of Africa is very dry and hot, water is too easy to evaporate and hard to preserve. In remote areas of African, clean water is very precious for the little rain weather and water is easy to get polluted. So many local people get disease because lack of clean water or drink polluted water. Q drum can not only store clean water, it can “walk” by itself. This is really big convenience for the low level transportation in rural Africa. People can keep energy to roll the Q drum instead of carrying the heavy water. 2. I would like to research the transportation category. Because the current solutions I read for transportation, such as boda bicycle, worldblike, Q drum and pot-in-pot cooler, are relatively easy to realize for an individual like me or the local people. It won’t cost too much or take too long time. These are some feasible and realistic solutions to solve local problem. And I have some idea to combine these four inventions, like to use the Q drum storing clean water as the wheels for boda bicyles or worldbikes and carry pot cooler on the bikes. Then it is really a multifunctional transportation tool.
Lab3 CCT333 Tutorial #3 Wiki Questions: 1. Describe Jan Chipchase's prior job (he now works at frog design http://www.frogdesign.com/) in relation to his work at Nokia. What are the two names he is given in the article? (3 paragraphs) 2. “It’s really quite striking,” Hammond says. “What people are voting for with their pocketbooks, as soon as they have more money and even before their basic needs are met, is telecommunications.” (World Resources Institute) In the spirit of this quote, describe four instances of how owning a cellphone enables users to better their lives. (4 paragraphs/ one for each instance) 1. Jan Chipchase's prior job was to live in some Africa and undeveloped area. His task was researching the telecommunication issue area in these low-income areas. The two names he got were “user anthropologist” & “human-behavior researcher”. He found a phenomenon that when the people income increased, the first expenditure was on telecommunication. This is really an amazing finding. It is really important to keep in touch with family friends and outside world. It is even more important than food and accommodation. Jan Chipchase's work is a special strategy of Nokia company. He gave this information to Nokia as feedback so that Nokia can develop more customized products and more widely accepted. This is one of the reason why Nokia gain a big market share even in undeveloped countries. 2. Receiving emails---nowadays, people use email to work, study and get connected to others. But when there is no access to PCs, we can use cellphone internet to check the email and won’t miss important information. Emergency---when we are in danger, we can use cellphone to call the police and ask help from others. Keep in touch with family and friends. Sometimes when you work late, you can make phone calls to tell your family and they won’t worry about you. Texting with friends is a routine for many people. GPS---we can use cellphone to get access to GPS when we get lost. It is very convenient to use cellphone GPS to search the road and get the destination.
Lab 4 Tutorial #4 Wiki Question: Write six paragraphs, one on each stage of the 'materials economy', and define its interactions. (6 paragraphs/one stage each paragraph) Extraction: This is the first step of materials economy. It refers to that human beings get resources from nature. But for a material economy, human should utilize these natural resources more efficiently because the resources will last longer in this way. We should take environment capacity into consideration when we get resources from it. To maximize the utilize efficiency is to produce most products at least cost and leave least pollution. Or to find new replaced resources which are environmental friendly, recyclable and renewable energy, like solar, wind, wave, etc. In this way, human benefit the nature, meanwhile, nature benefit human. It is win-win situation. Production: When human get resources from the nature, the next stage is to utilize these resources to produce into products that human need. Traditional production mode is to produce most products to satisfy the market need, caring nothing about environment cost. Material economy means, while producing a product, human need to think about the production process. Whether the current production processes heavily harms the environment and produces much pollution in the same time. When we processing these materials and resources, many toxics are also produced in the same time and ourselves, are get harmed by these chemical procedures. Distribution: When a product is finished from the factory, the next stage is to launch to market. But to make profits, to gain the markets, companies have too down their costs. What they usually do to down their produce costs? To lower the production standards, thus many toxics produced in products; and they use unhealthy chemicals in products. These are all wrong ways to make profits. Consumption: Then, who are the victims? Yes, it is consumers. Consumers buy these products from the market and eat, use these poisonous products, and get harmed to their health. Consumers also burden for the polluted environment and live in an unhealthy condition. Material economies try to avoid the pollution and toxics while producing. Because we produce pollutions, we suffer. Business companies are utilizing every method to persuade customers to buy their products, both for planned obsolescence and perceived obsolescence. The former refers short-time products and consumers will buy new ones soon. The latter means long-time products but consumers will replace old ones finally. Business companies encourage consumers to buy and buy forever. Not to use products in recycle way, but to replace old ones by new ones regardless of environment capacity. Disposal: The last stage is disposal. When products are used out, consumers buy new ones, then, how to deal with the disposals and the wastes? Some wastes are recyclable but some are not. We should recycle those can be recycled and process correctly to unrecyclable garbage to reduce the environment pollution at a lowest level based on current technologies. These are five stages for material economy. If all stages are well done, resources are utilized in efficient ways, products produced with little or none pollution, appropriate consumption, and right measures applied on disposals, the environment will benefit, and we will benefit a lot.
Lab5 CCT333 Tutorial #5 Wiki Questions: Bodystorming As part of 'Experience Prototyping', bodystorming has been developed as a method of enquiry for interactive design. Research the definition of 'bodystorming', and write three paragraphs describing its characteristics.(3 paragraphs) With a partner, develop a use-case theater scenario and describe how you would use bodystorming and video to help you analyze the design of an artifact. This artifact is a medicine bottle for a woman who is 80 years old, arthritic, partially blind and partially deaf, and the system to design is the system whereby she finds and takes her medicine. Bodystorming, according to the author, is “user-need centered, product-design driven” design process. It emphasizes the design from end users’ perspective, but not only solution-driven. Working in experiments scenario, prototyping methodology, use-case-theater are normal forms of bodystorming design. “Fitting the practice into design” should be the first stage of bodystorming design. From traditional research, design is as the same time as doing design research. But author argue that we should utilize bodystorming in problem defining step, which can be called “pre-ideation”. Participation experience may lead to modification of the design context. “Practice makes practice”. Each practice makes different results. So it is crucial to select several participants to keep the result being enough object and closest to the truth. Bodystroming is a very interaction focus design process. We should value the experience of end users’. Embodied storming makes people participate in the experiments and give designers feedback more directly and authentic. This engagement makes the designed product more users centered and works out a more efficient solution for users.
Lab6 CCT333 Tutorial 6 Wiki Question: Look over examples of her biomimetic principles applied to products in the slideshow located at http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/02/0209_green_biomimic/index_01.htm and write a short, one paragraph synopsis for each of your three favourite product designs. Describe why you like the design in your responses. 1. Avian Elements The first invention interests me is japan’s 500 series shinkansen bullet train. It has very high speed. So the noise is very big. It learns from the owl’s serrations to reduce the noise. The head of this train has big noise while going; the serration construe will reduce the noise. And another is to imitate the kingfisher’s beak. Kingfishers like to dive into water; their beaks will reduce the noise. This biomimetic technology on the train can reduce the noise when the train passes by a very narrow space into wide space. Noise reduction technologies will protect passengers’ health. 2. Echolocation The second invention interests me is the UltraCane. It is really helpful to vision-impaired people to live independently. It utilizes the sonar-wave technology. The Ultracane will send sonar wave to response objects or obstacles. And it will remind the vision-impaired people to avoid the objects. Thus the vision-impaired people will know there is something around; they won’t collide with the objects. It is very convenient for vision-impaired people to go outside without anyone else with them. 3. Scrubbing Bubbles The third technology interests me is that to processing carbon hydrates in a no toxic way. That is to imitate the mollusks to convert CO2. This technology can transfer CO2 to no harmful limestone. This is a way that to reduce waste to the environment while industry production. It is very important that one of the causes of global warming is too much emission of CO2. It will threaten human beings survival if the temperature of the earth is too high, all icebergs in both poplars will melt and big floods will occur and no lands left for human beings living.
Lab 7 CCT333 Tutorial 7 Wiki Questions: Describe how he defines 'design as a collaborative process', and cite two examples of how creators involve the people they want to create for in their work, according to Bill Moggridge's lecture. (1 paragraph each/3 paragraphs) Find an online example of a product which utilizes his principles of collaborative design which it involves people in it design. Cite its URL, and describe its design process in two paragraphs, and how it involved its user(s) in a a paragraph. (3 paragraphs) (Hint: Bruce Mau's Massive Change web site at http://www.massivechange.com/ also presents examples of these principles of using 'a shared mind'.) 1. Design processing is changing. Design as a collaborative process, according to Bill Moggridge, means to design products more from a collaborative angle, which is the shared views of both designers' and consumers'.The consumption side should be involved in the design process. Products design are not only based on original physical or psychological perspective,much more human factors and should be taken into consideration. The nowadays's design is much more human connective and interaction based. Tow examples: one is the Red Cross blood promotion. The Red Cross encourage people to donate blood by showing the stories of people who have already donated blood. It is a very persuading way that the potential blood donators will encouraged by the previous blood donators. people learn and get confidence from others' experience. This is the way that human interaction works. Another example is the surgeon tools used in surgeon operations. Designers design these tools based on the human body and how the surgeons use these tools.
2. http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=4014798 This is a baby tub which is designed for new born babies. This tub is easy to move. Normally, parents have to bath babies in adult tubs and keep knees bent for a long time. This baby tub can be put it in a sink height so that parents can avoid bending knees to bath the baby. New born babies’ skins are very soft and sensitive. This tub use baby-safe materials, no toxic, no slip nor PVC. Another advantage of this baby tub is that it can be folded and easy to take with. It can be used in small space and take out while travelling. It is very convenient to unfold it even with baby holding in arms. And the curve design will make the baby feel soft and comfortable. I think this design cares both adults and babies comfort. First, the design consider the height of adults that may be a barrier to hold little baby while taking bath. And the utilization of baby friendly materials and curve design give a lot care to new born babies. And it is easy to use and take with is another feature works for collaborative design.
Lab 8 CCT333 Tutorial 8 Questions: Describe how Natalie Jeremijenko has based her research on "new technologies are an opportunity for social transformation" to perform "small actions that can amount to a significant effect to improve local environmental health". Tip: Opening up TED's interactive transcript is very helpful to understand her talk and also looking over her web site on the Environmental Health at Clinic at http://www.environmentalhealthclinic.net/people/natalie-jeremijenko/. (2 paragraphs) Natalie Jeremijenko used a lot of experiments she did to explain “new technologies are an opportunity for social transformation” and “small actions that can amount to a significant effect to improve local environment health”. She had new definition of what health is. Health not only refers to the body health, but also includes the mental health. And she would build an environment clinic in university. She advised to have more small green lands along the street side in city thus the metal pollution emissions from cars can avoid to go to river and ocean with the rain. Another example she cited is that the mouse share the space, air and food with human beings. And mice also eat some antidepressant food or medical themselves just as human did. It is a shared environment for both animals and human. Natalie Jeremijenko also mentioned about the relationship between human and nature system. It is not a standard model to regard this relationship. We can make many changes which we both can benefit from. She cited an example that normal signs in city parks said “do not feed the birds for healthy reasons”. Maybe the birds want you to share the food and nutrition with them instead of avoiding them. The last example she talked about is the interface with the fish. The lights on the water will be on when fishes receive information. It is worthy to interact with nature and we can have new ways to interact with the nature system. Choose two projects on HowStuffisMade at http://howstuffismade.org/ and write about how they are made. (1 paragraph each/2 paragraphs) Fortune cookie: first thing is to prepare the ingredients, flour, sugar, egg and water. Basically, the process is machine controlled and baked at a high temperature. And then the cookies are positioned on the rail and a machine put the fortune tips on the cookie and another machine fold the cookies. The next step is a manual work that inspectors check the quality of the cookies. Then these cookies come back to machines and get wrapped in plastic bags. The last step is to put the wrapped cookies in boxes and send them to restaurants. American flag: the flag making process requests for half machine work and half manually work. The first step is to make the embroidery by computer, it is crucial for the mass flag product. Then some detail work requires the labor work like sewing and tailoring the stars on flags. Last step is to pack the finished flags in boxes for shipping. Why is it important that we understand how stuff is made as part of our systems analysis and design process? (1 paragraph) It is essentially important to know the procedure how stuff is made because some fabulous design ideas can not put into practice while in practical production process. We need to know the materials and steps to finish a product thus the design can be more feasible to realize.
Lab9 Tutorial 9 Wiki Questions: According to the slideshow by Sylvain Cottong, who is an employee athttp://www.integratedplace.com, describe the tools and methods of 'service design' (2 paragraphs). Commercialism is a big feature of today’s society. But the consumption behavior not only ends when the products are sold, but also for the service afterwards. Service design is a way to design considering both the product and the interface. The ultimate goal of service design is to convenient the end users who use these products and use them in a most efficiently way. Ethnography is one way used in service design. It refers to that the designers observe a product usage in realistic life that how it works and where it not works. Thus the designers can develop more advanced products based on the results and make the products more accepted by consumers. Ideation is another method which refers to that the designers will inquire the suggestions from the consumers and apply them into the production process. Customer journey and prototype are other methods of service design. From your personal experience, what would be a scenario in which these methods would be useful? (2 paragraphs) I think ethnography is a useful method for service design. For example, the fold bicycle. Different people have different height and leg and arm lengths. The seller would adjust the seat height according to my body features that I can ride the bike in a safe and comfortable way. The real scenario of different people’s situation just the way ethnography works. The service would be various according to different situations. The designers get inspirations from these scenarios and get the service customized to each consumer. This is the concept of service design.
Lab10 Tutorial 10 Wiki Questions: Write three paragraphs to define the term 'ergonomics'. (3 paragraphs) Ergonomics basically refers to design a product according to the human body features and needs, while achieving the practical usage of a product, it also requires the design to care about how comfortable it is and will this design do harm to human’s health. This video shows the adjustable office applications to achieve the human ergonomic goal, by comparing with the traditional office equipment. The first standard of ergonomics is comfort and simplicity. The liberty chair is flexible with human body when you do different gestures. The second requirement is suitable height and depth. The screen is moveable by a monitor arm which can adjust the distance between human eyes and screen rather than bend your back to get closer to see what’s on the screen. Thus we keep good gesture while using the computer and do good to our eyes. The third ergonomic design is task lighting. It is movable and you can put it only light the book instead of just front of your eyes. The forth is freedom of movement which is that you can adjust the chair arms height and the chair can bend when you lie down. The fifth design is prolonged laptop use. The L-shaped laptop holder can adjust the height and brightness of the laptop screen. The sixth is usable desk space. The access rail movement makes bigger space and all the stuff better organized. What is the 'Gilbreth system of motion analysis' (1 paragraph) Gilbreth system of motion analysis was stated by Frank Gilbreth. He developed this theory from researching the bricklaying. He found a efficient way to do bricklaying which lays the bricks faster and less motion for the workers. It lesson the workload of the works and meanwhile efficient to accomplish the work. It is used widely in management. Who was Henry Ford influenced by the efficiency expert, Frederick Taylor? (2 paragraphs) Henry Ford, who wanted to produce a simple car when cars were luxurious for the rich class with high prices, He decided to build a car in a different way. “Hardly a workman can be found who doesn’t devote his time to studying just how slowly he can work”---this is what he learnt form Frederick Taylor, who was very good at improving the working efficiency. Henry Ford came out an new method that it may be better to move the cars rather than human to move all the way to build a car. This is the origin of the production line today. It really increased the production efficiency and made the mass production become possible. And the workers work harder for high wages. What are the four basic principles of McDonaldization? (List of 4) 1. Efficiency—to have everything in mind and do it efficiently. 2. Predictability--- from time to time, place to place, repetition. 3. Calculability--- focus on quantity. 4. Non-human technology---people are losing technical skills.
Lab 1
Tutorial #1 Wiki Question (2 marks):
Review the Tutorial 1 movies, and describe Jonathan Ives and his theory of 'undesign' in relation to his work at Macintosh. (200 words)
Jonathan Ives is Apple’s vice president and designed such as ipod, imac and made Apple’s product become popular with his team. He showed his genius in innovating old things during university time and got some awards. The success of Apple company not only due to the leading ability of Ive, but also he knew how important it is to cooperate with his team. The designers, engineers and marketing department work interactively with each other.
Ive’s concept of “undesign” is a fantastic idea for designing products. The undersign concept is to design a product according to its original attribute. The simplest way to use digital products’ function can be widely accepted by consumers. For example, for the ipod mp3 player, we can just use our fingers to touch the screen to accomplish the order we want. Everyone can easily use it even if my old grandma. Just because of the undersign idea making everything became so easy, Apple products so popular around the world. Therefore, every new generation of an apple product keeps innovating and gain big market response.
Lab2
Tutorial #2 Wiki Question:
Choose a country on the map 'Design for the Other 90%' at **http://other90.cooperhewitt.org/** and read through the description of the products designed for each country.
1. Which product interests you the most, and why? (200 words)
2. Which category would interest you to research further for your group project, and why? (100 words)
1. The product most interests me is the Q drum. I think it is really a great invention for people living in Africa and desert area. I think for every human being, the first basic question is to survive. Maybe for us, who live in Canada can not feel that being alive is not a very difficult thing, but for people live in rural area of Africa, they lack food, water, medicine, etc. They do not have any immunity even to a very normal sickness like fever. So clean water is very important to sustain a life for them. Most area of Africa is very dry and hot, water is too easy to evaporate and hard to preserve. In remote areas of African, clean water is very precious for the little rain weather and water is easy to get polluted. So many local people get disease because lack of clean water or drink polluted water. Q drum can not only store clean water, it can “walk” by itself. This is really big convenience for the low level transportation in rural Africa. People can keep energy to roll the Q drum instead of carrying the heavy water.
2. I would like to research the transportation category. Because the current solutions I read for transportation, such as boda bicycle, worldblike, Q drum and pot-in-pot cooler, are relatively easy to realize for an individual like me or the local people. It won’t cost too much or take too long time. These are some feasible and realistic solutions to solve local problem. And I have some idea to combine these four inventions, like to use the Q drum storing clean water as the wheels for boda bicyles or worldbikes and carry pot cooler on the bikes. Then it is really a multifunctional transportation tool.
Lab3
CCT333 Tutorial #3 Wiki Questions:
1. Describe Jan Chipchase's prior job (he now works at frog design http://www.frogdesign.com/) in relation to his work at Nokia. What are the two names he is given in the article? (3 paragraphs)
2. “It’s really quite striking,” Hammond says. “What people are voting for with their pocketbooks, as soon as they have more money and even before their basic needs are met, is telecommunications.” (World Resources Institute)
In the spirit of this quote, describe four instances of how owning a cellphone enables users to better their lives. (4 paragraphs/ one for each instance)
1. Jan Chipchase's prior job was to live in some Africa and undeveloped area. His task was researching the telecommunication issue area in these low-income areas. The two names he got were “user anthropologist” & “human-behavior researcher”.
He found a phenomenon that when the people income increased, the first expenditure was on telecommunication. This is really an amazing finding. It is really important to keep in touch with family friends and outside world. It is even more important than food and accommodation.
Jan Chipchase's work is a special strategy of Nokia company. He gave this information to Nokia as feedback so that Nokia can develop more customized products and more widely accepted. This is one of the reason why Nokia gain a big market share even in undeveloped countries.
2. Receiving emails---nowadays, people use email to work, study and get connected to others. But when there is no access to PCs, we can use cellphone internet to check the email and won’t miss important information.
Emergency---when we are in danger, we can use cellphone to call the police and ask help from others.
Keep in touch with family and friends. Sometimes when you work late, you can make phone calls to tell your family and they won’t worry about you. Texting with friends is a routine for many people.
GPS---we can use cellphone to get access to GPS when we get lost. It is very convenient to use cellphone GPS to search the road and get the destination.
Lab 4
Tutorial #4 Wiki Question:
Write six paragraphs, one on each stage of the 'materials economy', and define its interactions. (6 paragraphs/one stage each paragraph)
Extraction:
This is the first step of materials economy. It refers to that human beings get resources from nature. But for a material economy, human should utilize these natural resources more efficiently because the resources will last longer in this way. We should take environment capacity into consideration when we get resources from it. To maximize the utilize efficiency is to produce most products at least cost and leave least pollution. Or to find new replaced resources which are environmental friendly, recyclable and renewable energy, like solar, wind, wave, etc. In this way, human benefit the nature, meanwhile, nature benefit human. It is win-win situation.
Production:
When human get resources from the nature, the next stage is to utilize these resources to produce into products that human need. Traditional production mode is to produce most products to satisfy the market need, caring nothing about environment cost. Material economy means, while producing a product, human need to think about the production process. Whether the current production processes heavily harms the environment and produces much pollution in the same time. When we processing these materials and resources, many toxics are also produced in the same time and ourselves, are get harmed by these chemical procedures.
Distribution:
When a product is finished from the factory, the next stage is to launch to market. But to make profits, to gain the markets, companies have too down their costs. What they usually do to down their produce costs? To lower the production standards, thus many toxics produced in products; and they use unhealthy chemicals in products. These are all wrong ways to make profits.
Consumption:
Then, who are the victims? Yes, it is consumers. Consumers buy these products from the market and eat, use these poisonous products, and get harmed to their health. Consumers also burden for the polluted environment and live in an unhealthy condition. Material economies try to avoid the pollution and toxics while producing. Because we produce pollutions, we suffer. Business companies are utilizing every method to persuade customers to buy their products, both for planned obsolescence and perceived obsolescence. The former refers short-time products and consumers will buy new ones soon. The latter means long-time products but consumers will replace old ones finally. Business companies encourage consumers to buy and buy forever. Not to use products in recycle way, but to replace old ones by new ones regardless of environment capacity.
Disposal:
The last stage is disposal. When products are used out, consumers buy new ones, then, how to deal with the disposals and the wastes? Some wastes are recyclable but some are not. We should recycle those can be recycled and process correctly to unrecyclable garbage to reduce the environment pollution at a lowest level based on current technologies.
These are five stages for material economy. If all stages are well done, resources are utilized in efficient ways, products produced with little or none pollution, appropriate consumption, and right measures applied on disposals, the environment will benefit, and we will benefit a lot.
Lab5
CCT333 Tutorial #5 Wiki Questions: Bodystorming
As part of 'Experience Prototyping', bodystorming has been developed as a method of enquiry for interactive design. Research the definition of 'bodystorming', and write three paragraphs describing its characteristics.(3 paragraphs)
With a partner, develop a use-case theater scenario and describe how you would use bodystorming and video to help you analyze the design of an artifact. This artifact is a medicine bottle for a woman who is 80 years old, arthritic, partially blind and partially deaf, and the system to design is the system whereby she finds and takes her medicine.
Bodystorming, according to the author, is “user-need centered, product-design driven” design process. It emphasizes the design from end users’ perspective, but not only solution-driven. Working in experiments scenario, prototyping methodology, use-case-theater are normal forms of bodystorming design.
“Fitting the practice into design” should be the first stage of bodystorming design. From traditional research, design is as the same time as doing design research. But author argue that we should utilize bodystorming in problem defining step, which can be called “pre-ideation”. Participation experience may lead to modification of the design context. “Practice makes practice”. Each practice makes different results. So it is crucial to select several participants to keep the result being enough object and closest to the truth.
Bodystroming is a very interaction focus design process. We should value the experience of end users’. Embodied storming makes people participate in the experiments and give designers feedback more directly and authentic. This engagement makes the designed product more users centered and works out a more efficient solution for users.
Lab6
CCT333 Tutorial 6 Wiki Question:
Look over examples of her biomimetic principles applied to products in the slideshow located at http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/02/0209_green_biomimic/index_01.htm and write a short, one paragraph synopsis for each of your three favourite product designs. Describe why you like the design in your responses.
1. Avian Elements
The first invention interests me is japan’s 500 series shinkansen bullet train. It has very high speed. So the noise is very big. It learns from the owl’s serrations to reduce the noise. The head of this train has big noise while going; the serration construe will reduce the noise. And another is to imitate the kingfisher’s beak. Kingfishers like to dive into water; their beaks will reduce the noise. This biomimetic technology on the train can reduce the noise when the train passes by a very narrow space into wide space. Noise reduction technologies will protect passengers’ health.
2. Echolocation
The second invention interests me is the UltraCane. It is really helpful to vision-impaired people to live independently. It utilizes the sonar-wave technology. The Ultracane will send sonar wave to response objects or obstacles. And it will remind the vision-impaired people to avoid the objects. Thus the vision-impaired people will know there is something around; they won’t collide with the objects. It is very convenient for vision-impaired people to go outside without anyone else with them.
3. Scrubbing Bubbles
The third technology interests me is that to processing carbon hydrates in a no toxic way. That is to imitate the mollusks to convert CO2. This technology can transfer CO2 to no harmful limestone. This is a way that to reduce waste to the environment while industry production. It is very important that one of the causes of global warming is too much emission of CO2. It will threaten human beings survival if the temperature of the earth is too high, all icebergs in both poplars will melt and big floods will occur and no lands left for human beings living.
Lab 7
CCT333 Tutorial 7 Wiki Questions:
Describe how he defines 'design as a collaborative process', and cite two examples of how creators involve the people they want to create for in their work, according to Bill Moggridge's lecture. (1 paragraph each/3 paragraphs)
Find an online example of a product which utilizes his principles of collaborative design which it involves people in it design. Cite its URL, and describe its design process in two paragraphs, and how it involved its user(s) in a a paragraph. (3 paragraphs)
(Hint: Bruce Mau's Massive Change web site at http://www.massivechange.com/ also presents examples of these principles of using 'a shared mind'.)
1. Design processing is changing. Design as a collaborative process, according to Bill Moggridge, means to design products more from a collaborative angle, which is the shared views of both designers' and consumers'.The consumption side should be involved in the design process. Products design are not only based on original physical or psychological perspective,much more human factors and should be taken into consideration. The nowadays's design is much more human connective and interaction based.
Tow examples: one is the Red Cross blood promotion. The Red Cross encourage people to donate blood by showing the stories of people who have already donated blood. It is a very persuading way that the potential blood donators will encouraged by the previous blood donators. people learn and get confidence from others' experience. This is the way that human interaction works.
Another example is the surgeon tools used in surgeon operations. Designers design these tools based on the human body and how the surgeons use these tools.
2. http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=4014798
This is a baby tub which is designed for new born babies. This tub is easy to move. Normally, parents have to bath babies in adult tubs and keep knees bent for a long time. This baby tub can be put it in a sink height so that parents can avoid bending knees to bath the baby. New born babies’ skins are very soft and sensitive. This tub use baby-safe materials, no toxic, no slip nor PVC.
Another advantage of this baby tub is that it can be folded and easy to take with. It can be used in small space and take out while travelling. It is very convenient to unfold it even with baby holding in arms. And the curve design will make the baby feel soft and comfortable.
I think this design cares both adults and babies comfort. First, the design consider the height of adults that may be a barrier to hold little baby while taking bath. And the utilization of baby friendly materials and curve design give a lot care to new born babies. And it is easy to use and take with is another feature works for collaborative design.
Lab 8
CCT333 Tutorial 8 Questions:
Describe how Natalie Jeremijenko has based her research on "new technologies are an opportunity for social transformation" to perform "small actions that can amount to a significant effect to improve local environmental health".
Tip: Opening up TED's interactive transcript is very helpful to understand her talk and also looking over her web site on the Environmental Health at Clinic at http://www.environmentalhealthclinic.net/people/natalie-jeremijenko/. (2 paragraphs)
Natalie Jeremijenko used a lot of experiments she did to explain “new technologies are an opportunity for social transformation” and “small actions that can amount to a significant effect to improve local environment health”. She had new definition of what health is. Health not only refers to the body health, but also includes the mental health. And she would build an environment clinic in university. She advised to have more small green lands along the street side in city thus the metal pollution emissions from cars can avoid to go to river and ocean with the rain. Another example she cited is that the mouse share the space, air and food with human beings. And mice also eat some antidepressant food or medical themselves just as human did. It is a shared environment for both animals and human.
Natalie Jeremijenko also mentioned about the relationship between human and nature system. It is not a standard model to regard this relationship. We can make many changes which we both can benefit from. She cited an example that normal signs in city parks said “do not feed the birds for healthy reasons”. Maybe the birds want you to share the food and nutrition with them instead of avoiding them. The last example she talked about is the interface with the fish. The lights on the water will be on when fishes receive information. It is worthy to interact with nature and we can have new ways to interact with the nature system.
Choose two projects on HowStuffisMade at http://howstuffismade.org/ and write about how they are made. (1 paragraph each/2 paragraphs)
Fortune cookie: first thing is to prepare the ingredients, flour, sugar, egg and water. Basically, the process is machine controlled and baked at a high temperature. And then the cookies are positioned on the rail and a machine put the fortune tips on the cookie and another machine fold the cookies. The next step is a manual work that inspectors check the quality of the cookies. Then these cookies come back to machines and get wrapped in plastic bags. The last step is to put the wrapped cookies in boxes and send them to restaurants.
American flag: the flag making process requests for half machine work and half manually work. The first step is to make the embroidery by computer, it is crucial for the mass flag product. Then some detail work requires the labor work like sewing and tailoring the stars on flags. Last step is to pack the finished flags in boxes for shipping.
Why is it important that we understand how stuff is made as part of our systems analysis and design process? (1 paragraph)
It is essentially important to know the procedure how stuff is made because some fabulous design ideas can not put into practice while in practical production process. We need to know the materials and steps to finish a product thus the design can be more feasible to realize.
Lab9
Tutorial 9 Wiki Questions:
According to the slideshow by Sylvain Cottong, who is an employee at http://www.integratedplace.com, describe the tools and methods of 'service design' (2 paragraphs).
Commercialism is a big feature of today’s society. But the consumption behavior not only ends when the products are sold, but also for the service afterwards. Service design is a way to design considering both the product and the interface. The ultimate goal of service design is to convenient the end users who use these products and use them in a most efficiently way.
Ethnography is one way used in service design. It refers to that the designers observe a product usage in realistic life that how it works and where it not works. Thus the designers can develop more advanced products based on the results and make the products more accepted by consumers. Ideation is another method which refers to that the designers will inquire the suggestions from the consumers and apply them into the production process. Customer journey and prototype are other methods of service design.
From your personal experience, what would be a scenario in which these methods would be useful? (2 paragraphs)
I think ethnography is a useful method for service design. For example, the fold bicycle. Different people have different height and leg and arm lengths. The seller would adjust the seat height according to my body features that I can ride the bike in a safe and comfortable way.
The real scenario of different people’s situation just the way ethnography works. The service would be various according to different situations. The designers get inspirations from these scenarios and get the service customized to each consumer. This is the concept of service design.
Lab10
Tutorial 10 Wiki Questions:
Write three paragraphs to define the term 'ergonomics'. (3 paragraphs)
Ergonomics basically refers to design a product according to the human body features and needs, while achieving the practical usage of a product, it also requires the design to care about how comfortable it is and will this design do harm to human’s health. This video shows the adjustable office applications to achieve the human ergonomic goal, by comparing with the traditional office equipment.
The first standard of ergonomics is comfort and simplicity. The liberty chair is flexible with human body when you do different gestures. The second requirement is suitable height and depth. The screen is moveable by a monitor arm which can adjust the distance between human eyes and screen rather than bend your back to get closer to see what’s on the screen. Thus we keep good gesture while using the computer and do good to our eyes. The third ergonomic design is task lighting. It is movable and you can put it only light the book instead of just front of your eyes.
The forth is freedom of movement which is that you can adjust the chair arms height and the chair can bend when you lie down. The fifth design is prolonged laptop use. The L-shaped laptop holder can adjust the height and brightness of the laptop screen. The sixth is usable desk space. The access rail movement makes bigger space and all the stuff better organized.
What is the 'Gilbreth system of motion analysis' (1 paragraph)
Gilbreth system of motion analysis was stated by Frank Gilbreth. He developed this theory from researching the bricklaying. He found a efficient way to do bricklaying which lays the bricks faster and less motion for the workers. It lesson the workload of the works and meanwhile efficient to accomplish the work. It is used widely in management.
Who was Henry Ford influenced by the efficiency expert, Frederick Taylor? (2 paragraphs)
Henry Ford, who wanted to produce a simple car when cars were luxurious for the rich class with high prices, He decided to build a car in a different way. “Hardly a workman can be found who doesn’t devote his time to studying just how slowly he can work”---this is what he learnt form Frederick Taylor, who was very good at improving the working efficiency.
Henry Ford came out an new method that it may be better to move the cars rather than human to move all the way to build a car. This is the origin of the production line today. It really increased the production efficiency and made the mass production become possible. And the workers work harder for high wages.
What are the four basic principles of McDonaldization? (List of 4)
1. Efficiency—to have everything in mind and do it efficiently.
2. Predictability--- from time to time, place to place, repetition.
3. Calculability--- focus on quantity.
4. Non-human technology---people are losing technical skills.